I just... why? Is his transmission busted and only works in reverse somehow?

It really doesnt. The purchase of murder machines being a “right” in no way compares to the dangers of abusing alcohol. It’s sad that you can’t see the difference

When the expressly intended purpose of a thing is to kill, then yes, a 10 per 100,000 mortality rate is unacceptable. You should not own something that was designed to kill another person just because you “enjoy” it.

We all have those risks. You guys just purposefully add another one so you can go bang bang bang. That is what we gawk at in disbelief

So, this is basically a conservative’s wet dream? “If only there was a good guy with a gun in that classroom... and now it can be YOU!”

4WD absolutely helps you corner. The key is doing it at a reasonable speed.  If you’re hauling ass, then you’re going in the ditch, but at low speeds you can steer with the throttle and get the vehicle to rotate in the direction you want.  

Half the time I see that with 4WD vehicles, it’s from people who don’t know that they manually have to activate 4WD. That’s another hurdle to actually making the most of all your driven wheels.

Really hope your car has all wheel braking though. If it doesn’t you should definitely get that checked out.

For a lot of people, having their tv on doesn’t mean they’re actively watching it or that they aren’t doing anything better/more productive. Decades of cable tv have made it really hard for some people to switch to not having any noise in the background while they eat or perform other tasks (or even go to sleep). And…

I’d love a setting to turn off the auto-start when I navigate to a movie or show. Sometimes I just need to get it set up and ready, but am waiting for popcorn to finish or someone to get off their phone call...

It’s 40.

Maybe the worst part about scalpers is that, if people could just think and control themselves for five seconds, we could end scalping. Don’t buy their shit, then they won’t sell it for ridiculous prices. God damn.

By Erik’s definition, the Voyager probes have never been to space. Erik’s definition is awful.

People thoughtless, inconsiderate, selfish American assholes obstructing doorways, hallways, freeways, sidewalks, paths and narrows passages in general?

Here’s a pretty quick way to tell if a politician is joking:

Democrat - Did your eyes roll up into your skull and come back in from beneath?

Republican - Was it at the expense of someone else? 

If you said yes to either of these, then you just heard a politician tell a joke.

...Canada?

No, the Bureau of Land Management is definitely an organization.

It’s harder to stack stuff on top of it when there are vents.

He kind of has a point. If the alternative is buying a $500-$1k external graphics card that ends up being about 1/3 the size of a tower, then that’s not very portable either. Yes, you still have the portable portion of the laptop, but you that isn’t going to game by itself. So you end up with a stationary gaming rig…

With the prices of “gaming” laptops with discrete graphics finally reaching the $600-1k price range, it makes eGPU’s kind of a tough argument for modest gaming needs, particularly if it sounds like you’re not getting 1:1 performance of the card itself due to connection bottlenecking. 

To be fair, I wasn’t really excited about anybody in the primaries, but Pete seemed nice enough, if a little measured.  Which didn’t seem like a bad alternative to the status quo.